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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Is the last point a negative? Isn't the US looking for anything we can export other than jobs and movies?
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Those exports are impossible without taxpayers subsidizing it. Wacko extremists want to cut spending on necesary items. But want government to spend $billions subsidizing what was obviously stupid - ethanol. The facts I posted so many years ago when it was first started still apply today. Because I bothered to first learn numbers.
If government was patriotic, then the US would not have a $0.50 per gallon tarrif on imported ethanol. Because nations that used engineering rather than extremists politics make ethanol at productive prices. So America has virtually banned foreign ethanol to protect business school types and their anti-American (unproductive) product. (Using same reasons that protected anti-American tire companies - ie Uniroyal, Firestone, Goodrich, etc) from the radial tire). Government then spends more money to give ethanol to foreign consumers. All in the name of jobs that only destroy American jobs.
Well, government (bought and paid for politicians) did same with American HDTV. Forcing on America a standard that is incompatible with HDTV everywhere else in the world. All to protect American jobs in Zenith. Zenith then sold their TV company to foreigners. Giving management big buck bonuses. And screwing American workers.
The ethanol example was exposed with numbers many years ago. Other examples of the same business school spin were found in radial tires (1975) and in HDTV.